Re:Yahoo’s Perplexing Remote Workers Decision
by hga on Sunday February 24, 2013 @10:13AM
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I was working at Lucent when they crashed from 106,000 employees to a targeted 37-35,000.
Managers boasted about laying off some of the best producers; I think the subtext was "If they're not safe, no one is".
Granted, this did kill the company (they got bought by Alcatel), and I know it killed the project I was working on when I left/was pushed out, something that was necessary for Lucent's survival (1/2 of the modern style telephone switch, what follows the 5ESS in their case).
Managers boasted about laying off some of the best producers; I think the subtext was "If they're not safe, no one is".
Granted, this did kill the company (they got bought by Alcatel), and I know it killed the project I was working on when I left/was pushed out, something that was necessary for Lucent's survival (1/2 of the modern style telephone switch, what follows the 5ESS in their case).